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Category Archives: Fiction
Horcynus Orca by Stefano D’Arrigo
This colossal book has required from its creator a colossal effort expended over almost twenty years. By the same token, anybody desiring to tackle Horcynus Orca will have to be ready to make a colossal investment in terms of both … Continue reading
Posted in Fiction, Reviews
Tagged Dolphin, Fera, Horcynus Orca, Italian, Killer whale, Orca, Sicilian, Stefano D'Arrigo, Strait of Messina
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The Extraordinary Adventures of Pentothal (Le straordinarie avventure di Pentothal) by Andrea Pazienza
Andrea Pazienza, the prodigy of Italian comics, wrote the first instalment of his psychedelic debut The Extraordinary Adventures of Pentothal when he was just twenty-one. The complete graphic novel, whose parts were published between 1977 and 1981, offers the unforgettable … Continue reading
The Cotton Fortress (La forteresse de coton) by Philippe Curval
“The Cotton Fortress” or, more accurately, “the Cotton Castle” is the meaning of the Turkish name Pamukkale given to the thermal water resort famous for its snow-white travertine terraces formed by the calcium carbonide-rich springs over millennia. According to the … Continue reading
Posted in Fiction, Reviews
Tagged French, La forteresse de coton, Philippe Curval, The Cotton Fortress
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Schattenfroh by Michael Lentz
What was it like to be THERE in 1851, when Moby-Dick was published? Or in 1913, when Swann’s Way came out? Or in 1922, when Ulysses crashed into our culture like a meteor and changed it forever? Or in 1955, when … Continue reading
Posted in Fiction, Reviews
Tagged Düren, ekphrasis, fourth dimension, German, German Peasants' War, golem, Hieronymus Bosch, Kabbalah, Michael Lentz, Schattenfroh, Thomas Müntzer, Werner Tübke
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Return to Egypt (Возвращение в Египет) by Vladimir Sharov
Vladimir Sharov’s dense and voluminous novel, the winner of the 2014 Russian Booker Prize and a runner-up of the Big Book Award of the same year, is in many ways similar in its themes, ideas and obsessions with the much … Continue reading
Posted in Fiction, Reviews
Tagged A. A. Ivanov, Beguny, Chichikov, Dante, Dead Souls, Возвращение в Египет, Exodus, Kazimir Malevich, Nikolai Gogol, Old Believers, Return to Egypt, Russian, Tash Hauli Palace, The Appearance of Christ Before the People, The Divine Comedy, The Government Inspector, The Inspector General, Vladimir Sharov
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The Great Untranslated: Ostatnia powieść (The Last Novel) by Teodor Parnicki
In world literature there is a special category: the Great Unfinished Novel. It comprises such early-20th century classics as Robert Musil’s The Man without Qualities, Jaroslav Hašek’s The Good Soldier Švejk, Franz Kafka’s The Castle, and, from more recent times: Ralph Ellison’s Three Days Before the Shooting … Continue reading
Posted in Fiction, The Great Untranslated
Tagged Ostatnia powieść, Polish, Teodor Parnicki, The Last Novel
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Bastard Battle by Céline Minard
Céline Minard’s novel is written in a brilliant pastiche of Middle French speckled with amusing anachronisms. She has drawn inspiration from Jean Froissart’s Chronicles as well as Villon’s poems and Rabelais’ satirical pentalogy. The other major source of influence lies in … Continue reading
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Tagged Bastard Battle, Céline Minard, French, Seven Samurai
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Finisterra: Landscape and Settlement (Finisterra: Paisagem e Povoamento) by Carlos de Oliveira
Carlos de Oliveira’s brief novel is a thing of exceptional, exquisite beauty. It’s one of the rare cases when the expression “to paint with words” is not just a glib figure of speech, but the only possible way to characterise … Continue reading
Forthcoming: Abel and Cain by Gregor von Rezzori
New York Review Books is going to publish Gregor von Rezzori’s novelistic diptych in all its toxic splendour. Joachim Neugroschel’s 1985 translation of the massive, controversial The Death of My Brother Abel (Der Tod meines Bruders Abel) has been revised by Marshall Yarborough for … Continue reading
Guest Post: Simon Collings on Georges Limbour
Michel Leiris, writing in Atoll in 1968, described the writer Georges Limbour as: ‘a great poet in every heart-beat of what he wrote, but a poet without fanfare or vain display’. In ‘a society less gross than ours’ Leiris went on to … Continue reading
Posted in Fiction, Guest Posts
Tagged French, Georges Limbour, Jean Dubuffet, Simon Collings, Surrealism
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